What can you can get for £485,000?

It sounds almost too good to be true: an entire medieval village in Italy for
sale at £485,000.

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The historic village of Valle Piola, in the heart of one of Italy's
biggest national parks, is on sale for 550,000 eurosPhoto: REX FEATURES

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Photo: REX FEATURES

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Photo: REX FEATURES

8:30AM BST 16 Apr 2011

But what can you get for a similar price?

Well if you start at £500,000, you could buy Kate Middleton's childhood home.

The four-bedroomed Victorian semi, in Bradfield Southend, Berks, where Miss Middleton lived for 16 years, is to be auctioned in June.

Or you could buy a Cumbrian village pub - The Weary, at Castle Carrock, near Brampton, was bought at auction after the owners left in February.

In May 2009, Lowry's 1935 masterpiece 'A Market Place, Berwick-on-Tweed' was sold fore £450,000, or £542,000 including VAT and buyers premium. Sold by Cambridgeshire County Council, the painting was purchased in 1945 by its then chief education officer, Henry Morris, for 30 guineas - the equivalent of £31.50.

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If you want your money to stretch further, a giant bluefin tuna fetched £250,000 at auction in Tokyo in January. So You could effectively buy two with your money.

If you stick with £485,000 then you could buy yourself two nuclear bunkers, with £5,000 to spare. The former nuclear bunker near Twyford village Hampshire which can house up to 30 people was sold for £240,000.

Or it could buy you the first management contract between the Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein twice over. It sold in September 2008. The document was billed as the most important music contract of all time.